Title: Permalink changes after post is published Last modified: August 30, 2016 --- # Permalink changes after post is published * [MoDuet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aaronbacon/) * (@aaronbacon) * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-changes-after-post-is-published/) * Having an issue with on one of my sites. As of Monday when a new post is published the permalink is changed. This only happens a few times a day but does result in a 404 because the permalink is incorrect. The site is using custom permalinks. Here is an example: * Normal behavior… /%category%/%postname%/ /metro/communities/holidaywrecks/ * What the link looks like when it is altered and results in a 404… /lifestyle_culture/ 235066/ or /metro/communities/235073/ * Any suggestions? Its hard to pinpoint what is causing this. I’ve gone the route of disabling plugins but because it doesn’t always happen its hard to determine what/if a plugin is the issue. Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) * [InterServer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/interservernet-web-hosting/) * (@interservernet-web-hosting) * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-changes-after-post-is-published/#post-6788273) * The error could be because of incorrect .htaccess configuration. Refer the following WordPress documentation to correct .htaccess configuration. * [https://codex.wordpress.org/htaccess](https://codex.wordpress.org/htaccess) * The issue can also occurs if the permalink rewrite code has not been updating in .htaccess file due to incorrect permission. So please check if write permission is enabled. * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks) * The above page will give you a detailed structure of permalink settings. * Thread Starter [MoDuet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aaronbacon/) * (@aaronbacon) * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-changes-after-post-is-published/#post-6788400) * Thanks for the response. * .htaccess – permissions are set to 644 and the rule is the default: # BEGIN WordPress RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}!- d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] # END WordPress * Permalink – I have a feeling its the custom permalink that is causing the issue but I’m confused why it all of sudden starting happening. * I’m also using WP Rocket for caching, although they do not think the issue is caused by the plugin, they have also made some recommendations. * Thread Starter [MoDuet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aaronbacon/) * (@aaronbacon) * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-changes-after-post-is-published/#post-6788471) * Still having this issue. We publish about 10 – articles a day and every day 2– 3 articles have this issue where the url structure gets changed once the post is published. It doesn’t matter if the post is scheduled or not. Below is another example: * Before the post was published and saved as a draft the permalink was, [http://insiderlouisville.com/metro/education-community/grawemeyerpsychology/](http://insiderlouisville.com/metro/education-community/grawemeyerpsychology/) * However once the post’s status changed to publish the permalink was switched to, [http://insiderlouisville.com/metro/education-community/234869/](http://insiderlouisville.com/metro/education-community/234869/) * Dropping the postname and replacing it with the id. As before this results in a 404 error. The link has since been fixed. Again, this just started last Monday and I have all but ruled out that this is a plugin issue. * Thread Starter [MoDuet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aaronbacon/) * (@aaronbacon) * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-changes-after-post-is-published/#post-6788510) * Issue still continues. I am switching out the Theme this weekend in hopes that is the issue. Also, the database has a lot of old tables that are no longer used. I’m going to look into cleaning that as well. Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) The topic ‘Permalink changes after post is published’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [permalink](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/permalink/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 4 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [MoDuet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aaronbacon/) * Last activity: [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-changes-after-post-is-published/#post-6788510) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics